Quiejo Toledo is a typical farmhouse cheese from Portugal. On working farms with multiple types of dairy animals, the milk of cow, sheep, and goat are often blended together, as it was a necessity to quickly turn fresh, perishable milk into cheese. Produced in Torres Vedras, north of the capital of Lisbon, Toledo takes on the best characteristics of each milk to produce a stunning cheese. With the grassy flavor of goats milk, the butterfat richness of sheep's milk, and the sharp flavor of cow's milk, Toledo is an excellent addition to any cheese board. The individual-size of each 7 oz wheel makes this a quick-aging cheese, with an edible rind of smoked paprika. Slice it into medallions and top off a salad, or cut into wedges to serve as hors d'oeuvres with cured ham.

Sent the cheese for her birthday everyone loved this one the best very tasty.

By Sra Denisefrom Toledo OHon Sep 05, 2015

Fabulous

I lived in Portugal for two years and cheese made from sheep, cow, and goat's milk was always available at our fruitaria. Served with papos secos (buns) and marmelo (quince jelly) and it's a fabulous snack, breakfast, or a lovely complement to a cheese plate.

By Chpiper16from Central Paon Mar 03, 2012

Not a fan of the coating

The cheese itself has very good flavor. I did not like the outer dusting of smoked paprika.

By InQ4Foodfrom OKC, OKon May 24, 2010

A Bit too much of the pasture

This would be a great cheese if it a bit more pasteurization was done in the milk before it was made into cheese, but then it may loose its character. Even though the description says the "grassy flavors of the goat's milk", most pasteurized goat's milk, at least here in the states, does not taste like the pasture. It could have been the season this cheese was made in, but a bit too much of the field or pasture comes across in this cheese for me. Although it did go quickly on my cheese tray at my social party we hosted, I would say it was more for the paprika flavoring on and in the cheese rather than the complexity of the cheese itself, and my palette is a bit more sensitive than others. This cheese does have a flavor and a character all its own. If you don't mind the taste of the goat's, cow's, and sheep's food in your cheese, then go for it.